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The French media conglomerate Vivendi is looking at a possible skyacquisition of pay-TV group Sky, as one of several options to expand the reach of its own TV group Canal Plus

ITV is on the verge of paying up to $950m (£630m) for the TV division of The Weinstein Company, the production studio set up by veteran film and TV producer Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, according to reports

TEN, The Enthusiast Network, announced its acquisition of TORQUE.TV, as it looks towards a summer launch of a new over-the-top video platform

Vox Media, the US digital publisher, has bought a data science start-up as it looks to track more closely how readers view, share and interact with content across the internet

Next Fifteen Communications, parent company of PR firms including Lexis and Bite, has spent £5.4m to secure outright ownership of digital design agency Beyond and content marketing agency Republic Publishing

While mainstream magazines are seeing sales fall, and long-standing titles such as Loaded are printing their final issues, the world of niche, independent mags is going from strength to strength

Vivendi has confirmed a bid for Orange-owned YouTube rival Dailymotion. The French media group, which owns Universal Music and Canal+, confirmed reports it was in talks to buy a majority stake in the video site, in a deal thought to be worth €250m (£182.6m) for a 75 to 80 per cent share.

For all the talk of ‘digital first’, most dailies are still dominated by the economics and culture of print. But, even those with growing online audiences must now make a real strategic leap.

The technology behind Rodale’s new online learning platform, Rodale U, is Thought Industries – a commerce-integrated learning platform designed to deliver education without borders.

Clio Online’s portfolio offers a range of digital learning portals for a majority of subjects and grades, accompanied by an advanced learning management platform.

The Golf Paper, a weekly publication packed with news, reports and features about the sport, will be launched by the same stable that publishes The Rugby Paper, The Cricket Paper, The Non-League Paper, The Football League Paper, the football fans’ magazine, Late Tackle and Racing Ahead, horse racing magazine.

Trade magazines often have to adjust to their businesses to mirror the expansions and consolidations going on amongst readers and advertisers

Trade shows have become a particularly sought after asset in media M&A lately. B2B publisher 1105 Media has just sold its education technology events to LRP Publications

French industrialist Vincent Bolloré has increased his stake in Vivendi, tightening his grip on the media and content group on the eve of a showdown with activist shareholders.

Haymarket Media Group has reported pre-tax profits of £11.1 million in the year to 30 June 2014, up from a loss of £7.6 million in the preceding 18 months

Profits at Bertelsmann, Europe’s biggest media group by revenue, dropped 35 per cent last year as it scaled back on declining businesses

Retail Business Technology Expo (RBTE), held at Olympia London alongside the inaugural Retail Design Expo. RBTE 2015 attracted 12,043 visitors on 9-10 March, (1,500+ international) and 450 exhibitors

Organiser Clarion Events has announced the acquisition of Internet Retail Events Ltd from SJP Business Media.

Programmatic media-buying is growing fast, but in an apparent paradox, it is growing faster among advertisers and agencies than the big publishers and ad networks they do business with

Xaxis, the world’s largest global programmatic media and technology platform, has agreed to acquire Action Exchange, Inc., a leading mobile performance-based marketing business with an e-commerce orientation in the United States